Plott Hound Magazine

YOU DID IT! We are at $12,000 exactly!! REPRINTS REPRINTS!!

"After a Wolf Swallowed the Sun" by @linardos.bsky.social free to read online!

"Man wanted the sun, and he’d have sucked it dry, turned it to tall towers of glass and more machines. So I swallowed it, to protect it from the Man.”

plotthoundmag.com/after-a-wolf...

"In the Sea of Binary Stars" by @herlizardness.bsky.social free to read online!

"We are both shadows of each other, but we are also ebb and flow, binary stars forever circling, both shining just as bright."

plotthoundmag.com/in-the-sea-o...

"Your Birdsong Pleading" by @loragray.bsky.social now free to read online!

"So, why, sister, are you here, with your milky feathers, your downy breast, your songbird pleading for more time, more love, more sameness?"

plotthoundmag.com/your-birdson...

"Who is Wrong When They Are Hungry" by @emmiechristie33.bsky.social now free to read online!

"You step out of the skin around your legs and kick it off like you are a tree and it was bark you had to scrape off."

plotthoundmag.com/who-is-wrong...

"Animapod" by Kite Marsh now free to read online!

"Always together; always side by side. I thought sometimes it would be more pleasant to be Eight, or One, and have some privacy to one side at least."

plotthoundmag.com/animapod-by-...

"To Dream of Birdsong" by @parkeriswriting.bsky.social now free to read online!

"Ren dreams in her pyrobed for three years as the ship diverts its course, travels to the next destination. She has died six hundred and seventeen times."

plotthoundmag.com/to-dream-of-...

"When the Crow Sings" by Anna Madden is now free to read online!

"Her voice is a thundering, a wooing.
It grays into a many-beaked murder
eating the hearts of mortal man."

plotthoundmag.com/when-the-cro...

"Respect the Hustle" by @risawolf.bsky.social is now free to read online!

"It was a shamble type of eve, the moon bulging quiet and hush-hush up in the sky. I had a full pouch and none was buying, not even the raccoons tussling in the big cans."

plotthoundmag.com/respect-the-...

"The Buffalo Woman" by Jacy Morris is now free to read online!

"Something was taking them. The rumors had been spread by her lover who had seen fields of the dead, their horns taken, their skins removed, their meat left to rot."

plotthoundmag.com/the-buffalo-...

Plott Hound Magazine closes tomorrow night!

If you have a story, poem, essay pitch, or flash fic to send us, now's the time!

plotthound.moksha.io/publication/...

"Cold Blood" by Kristy Ettel now free to read online!

"Where dusk frays into threads of night,
a serpent spills from fissured stone,
his body a gutter, ice-glimpse of blackness
like obsidian vine drunk on night’s wine-light."

plotthoundmag.com/cold-blood-b...

"A Pale Herd, a Worm Moon" by @srinivassimo.bsky.social now free to read online!

"They were not really calves, she knew—there was no calf-like innocence in those gleaming white eyes—but she did not know what else to call them."

plotthoundmag.com/a-pale-herd-...

"Fire & Flight" by @cornellwriter.bsky.social now free to read online!

"I know the song is at the part where speaks of lighting the fire—le feu. I know that part. If there’s one thing a dragon knows it’s fire."

plotthoundmag.com/fire-flight-...

Smart Search List of the Day The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Mainstream Science Fiction Short Stories feat. @castofwonders.org @trollbreathmag.bsky.social @justkeepupmagazine.bsky.social @plotthoundmag.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com/search/smart/fiction/fee-free-mainstream-sf-short-stories-vhENoBJM

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Mainstream Science Fiction Short Stories feat. @castofwonders.org @trollbreathmag.bsky.social @justkeepupmagazine.bsky.social @plotthoundmag.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...

Six more days to get your work off to Plott Hound Magazine (that's us!) for consideration.

We have a Moksha portal accepting short stories, flash fiction, poetry, and also pitches for non-fiction essays.

You got this!

plotthound.moksha.io/publication/...

Plott Hound issue 2 is now live!

Buy individual issue or annual subscription to access this latest menagerie:
plotthoundmag.com/issues/

Read my story, "At the Edge of the Tale" (which is about a sad little barn swallow becoming a key figure in the larger story of a captured unicorn) in the second wonderful issue of @plotthoundmag.bsky.social!

My poem, “Your Birdsong Pleading,” is now out in Plott Hound Magazine!

Yay!

It's here! It's here!

Check out Issue 2 of Plott Hound Magazine now!

plotthoundmag.com/issues/

Poetry?

Yes, poetry!

We'd love to read your words, be they poems of octopuses or dinosaurs or animals of all kinds.

Submit through our Moksha portal: plotthound.moksha.io

Got a story deeply set in an animal's eyes?

Send it out way!

We'd love to take a sniff. Guidelines here: plotthoundmag.com/submissions/

For those curious, cover art for issue two is by @storiel.bsky.social

Go check out more awesome art!

Plott Hound is now open for submissions!

We're open until September 15th.

You can submit via moksha (link: plotthound.moksha.io)

Send us your fiction, your poetry, and more!

Issue 2 of Plott Hound will be released into the wild this coming week!

Submission period for issue 3/fall quarter will open starting tomorrow! We eagerly await your animal stories, poems and essay pitches.

Publications | Moksha The Moksha Submissions System

Plott Hound is OPEN for submissions September 1-15, 2025!

Submit original short fiction, flash, poems and essay pitches here:
plotthound.moksha.io

Awoo!!

We close on September 15th!

::checks sticky notes::

::looks under dog bed::

Plott Hounds are good at following scents, but aren't all that good at remembering names, so we're going to call on @thaisibir.bsky.social for this answer!